Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:26:54 -0400 > Jim Popovitch wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dianne Skoll >> > you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. >> and with BN you are NOT paying for a delistin

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote: > you should not have to pay for delisting one IP. and with BN you are NOT paying for a delisting.You are paying for the upfront ID validation and verification process that goes into fast-tracking your email flow. If you don't want that f

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
> I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. You are not being shaken down, but you might be slandering. ;-) I'm fairly certain that BN isn't making much profit off of your $20. What they are getting is your commitment, and your ID, that one or more IP addrs under your cont

Re: definition update frequency?

2015-06-04 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Updates were broken by two issues. 1st, there is a bug in svn with files > with spaces with mod svn. I introduced a file with a space while preparing > the 3.4.1 release. Forgive me if this sounds incendiary, it's not meant to be.At wh

Re: updated RegistrarBoundaries.pm

2015-02-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Axb wrote: > > Many moons ago, obviously before you started using SA, what you *now* > consider "dynamic", was very static with less than than handfull of changes > /release. There's some pointless blabber in that as well. ;-) Irregardless of last century's hist

Re: Can't locate object method "check_for_spf_helo_permerror" via package "Mail: [...]:SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus"

2015-02-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 2/10/2015 9:13 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> >> I would guess I missed the cutoff for yesterday's masscheck and tomorrow's >> will include it. > > Rule gen just finished and the update does include the fix if you want to > confirm. L

Re: Can't locate object method "check_for_spf_helo_permerror" via package "Mail: [...]:SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus"

2015-02-10 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 2/10/2015 9:00 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Kevin A. McGrail >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2/9/2015 4:12 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> >>>> what

Re: Can't locate object method "check_for_spf_helo_permerror" via package "Mail: [...]:SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus"

2015-02-10 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 2/9/2015 4:12 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> what is that below introduced with tonights update and get triggered now >> for every single mail and why does such things not automatically get caught >> before push? > > It was part of a com

Re: Argument "perl_version" isn't numeric

2014-11-30 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I guess the $64K question is, does the new rule that's version dependent > Increase the "spam catch" Because if it does, then I don't regard it as a > problem. Instead, I want it! The real $64K question is: If you really want it (in yo

Re: Argument "perl_version" isn't numeric

2014-11-29 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Niamh Holding wrote: > > Hello > > Anyone else seen this in v3.4.0? > > sa-learn --dump magic > Argument "perl_version" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at (eval 530) line 2. > Argument "perl_version" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at (eval 1023) line > 2. Last

Re: Bayes, Manual and Auto Learning Strategies

2014-07-02 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Steve Bergman wrote: >> I suggest you join the SDLU list where you can discuss anti spam >> philosophy. >> > > Thanks. I suggest that you consult for an ISP-dependent business someday. > ;-) > > It's an education, too. > > -Steve Just a heads-up... that sort of b

Re: SPAM from a registrar

2014-06-09 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 6/9/2014 2:33 PM, John Hardin wrote: > >> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> >> On 6/9/2014 1:23 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: >>> Comparing my list of new domains, shows that DOB seems to pick them up after they ar

Re: Plans for a DMARC plugin ???

2014-04-30 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Apr 30, 2014 5:09 AM, "Tom Hendrikx" wrote: > > On 04/30/2014 11:00 AM, Axb wrote: > > On 04/30/2014 10:30 AM, Michael Storz wrote: > >> Am 2014-04-30 10:23, schrieb Axb: > >>> On 04/30/2014 10:10 AM, Michael Storz wrote: > Are there any plans for a DMARC plugin for SpamAssassin? Reacting

Re: Fwd: plonk

2013-05-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On May 7, 2013 1:01 PM, "Joe Acquisto-j4" wrote: > > >>>> Jim Popovitch 05/07/13 12:13 PM >>> > >On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > >> > >> What I did not get was why my attempts to clarify whatever offense &g

Re: Fwd: plonk

2013-05-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > > What I did not get was why my attempts to clarify whatever offense > was taken were met by reject messages. Quite simply put, Benny Pedersen wants you to respect his signature, which reads: senders that put my email into body conten

Re: spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > spamass-milter also supports "--socket", so it is not limited to only spamc. And... that is wrong. Anything passed to spamass-milter after "--" (i.e. --socket=...) is passed on to spamc. -Jim P.

Re: spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Dave Funk wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >>> Am 22.03.2013 22:31, schrieb Benny Pedersen: are spamass-milter using spamc ? >> >> >> On 23.03.13 00:34, Robert Schetterer wrote: >>> >>> at my knowledge >>> spamass-milter uses

Re: why don't banks do more against phishing?

2012-04-22 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > OT but related > > I just got a bunch of phishing attacks against a bank come through. > Following the link leads me to some owned website with the fake bank > frontend - and it had a feature that I've seen time and time again: > images and lin

Re: Rule update just happened for the first time in two months

2011-10-31 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 13:55, wrote: > > Normally rules get updated every day, via sa-update.  They weren't > for the last couple months due to a clock on a server being set wrong: > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6671 Interesting. In my mind, it's a short walk from out

Re: Disable a Rule

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 21:46, RW wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:25:25 + > Jeremy McSpadden wrote: > >> Very well. DNSMasq setup and running local, yet still returns HI > > AFAIK DNSMasq isn't a recursive nameserver, it's just a DNS forwarder. Correct. pdns_resolver is an excellent replacem

Re: Rule updates

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 13:51, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > >> On 10/19, Jim Popovitch wrote: >>> >>> Is the missing entity one person, several people, many people?  Was >>> there an untimely death?   I b

Re: Rule updates

2011-10-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:26, wrote: > On 10/05, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 17:41, RW wrote: >> > The usual reason for a hiatus is that too much spam or ham has aged-out >> > in the corpora, and a top-up is needed. > > I think it's mo

Re: Spam email many have RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED

2011-10-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:15, Alessio Cecchi wrote: > > Why Google name server returns an incorrect value? Because sometimes the Google name servers overload the upstream system and get blocked. The same thing happens if you use the Level 3 servers (4.2.2.x). You would be better served by ins

Re: Rule updates

2011-10-05 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 17:41, RW wrote: > The usual reason for a hiatus is that too much spam or ham has aged-out > in the corpora, and a top-up is needed. So, how do we get it top-up'ed? -Jim P.

Re: Rule updates

2011-10-04 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 09:39, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 10/4/11 3:07 AM, Lars Jørgensen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it me or has it been a long time since there has been an update to the >> spamassassin ruleset? >> >> > what is 'long'? Since 27-Aug-2011 ? $ ll /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003001/up